(03-19-2020 10:46 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 10:42 AM)gdunn Wrote:  Theory we have here at our office is that we're trying to flatten the curve but in doing that it'll last longer.

with a kill rate from 1% to 0.5% where 98% were susceptible....

yeah, those numbers should play out once everyone that can, gets tested...

helluva reason to shut down the economy due to muh pandemics....

/sarc

PA had their first death yesterday. Not much is known.

What I've understood.. If say I have a stroke, get to the hospital, test positive, but then another stroke happens and I die.. It'd be considered I died from complications from the 'Rona.. Even if I showed zero symptoms.

(03-19-2020 10:55 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 10:46 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 10:42 AM)gdunn Wrote:  Theory we have here at our office is that we're trying to flatten the curve but in doing that it'll last longer.

with a kill rate from 1% to 0.5% where 98% were susceptible....

yeah, those numbers should play out once everyone that can, gets tested...

helluva reason to shut down the economy due to muh pandemics....

/sarc

PA had their first death yesterday. Not much is known.

What I've understood.. If say I have a stroke, get to the hospital, test positive, but then another stroke happens and I die.. It'd be considered I died from complications from the 'Rona.. Even if I showed zero symptoms.

It this point they have no choice but to artificially inflate death numbers. If this thing ends in just a few hundred deaths, next time they try this shutdown schit there will be a civil war.

The government says the pandemic could last 18 months because they rarely get chances to pass draconian legislation and everybody is nicely in a panic so it's a great time to pass terrible laws that attack your most fundamental of freedoms.

(03-19-2020 11:14 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  The government says the pandemic could last 18 months because they rarely get chances to pass draconian legislation and everybody is nicely in a panic so it's a great time to pass terrible laws that attack your most fundamental of freedoms.

X ZAZA CLY!

(03-19-2020 11:14 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  The government says the pandemic could last 18 months because they rarely get chances to pass draconian legislation and everybody is nicely in a panic so it's a great time to pass terrible laws that attack your most fundamental of freedoms.

Xactly

(03-19-2020 06:47 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Government plan dated last Friday assumes this outbreak could last 18 months. Here are the key assumptions from the plan:

Query, do the 18 months of pandemic exclude Jan, Feb, and Mar 2020? Because we are nowhere near pandemic stage, at least not in the USA, at this point.

(03-19-2020 11:14 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  The government says the pandemic could last 18 months because they rarely get chances to pass draconian legislation and everybody is nicely in a panic so it's a great time to pass terrible laws that attack your most fundamental of freedoms.

Yep

(03-19-2020 11:18 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 06:47 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Government plan dated last Friday assumes this outbreak could last 18 months. Here are the key assumptions from the plan:

Query, do the 18 months of pandemic exclude Jan, Feb, and Mar 2020? Because we are nowhere near pandemic stage, at least not in the USA, at this point.

How would I know that? I just found the report and posted it, lol.

But IMO, the wording makes it seem like 18 months from date of publication, which was last Friday, iirc.

It also mentions "waves," which means they are anticipating it to ebb and flow over that period.